The Speaker, Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers and Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking. To which is Prefixed an Essay on ElocutionSimms&McIntyre, 1811 - Počet stran: 644 |
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... gains friends and adversity tries them . Nothing more engages the affections of men , than a handsome address , and graceful conversation . Complaisance renders a superior amiable , an equal agreeable , and an inferior acceptable ...
... gains friends and adversity tries them . Nothing more engages the affections of men , than a handsome address , and graceful conversation . Complaisance renders a superior amiable , an equal agreeable , and an inferior acceptable ...
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... gain ap❤- plause ; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age : but to escape censure , a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing . When Darius offered Alexander ten thousand ta ...
... gain ap❤- plause ; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age : but to escape censure , a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing . When Darius offered Alexander ten thousand ta ...
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... gain of a few . To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense , is like attempting to hew blocks of marble with a razor . Superstition is the spleen of the soul . He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task be undertakes ...
... gain of a few . To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense , is like attempting to hew blocks of marble with a razor . Superstition is the spleen of the soul . He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task be undertakes ...
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... gain both for yourself and me an immortal reputation . But before I invite you into my society and friendship , I , will be open and sincere with yon , and must lay down this as an esta blished truth , that there is nothing truly ...
... gain both for yourself and me an immortal reputation . But before I invite you into my society and friendship , I , will be open and sincere with yon , and must lay down this as an esta blished truth , that there is nothing truly ...
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... gains were sure , His giving rare , save farthings to the poor . The Devil was piqu'd such saintship to behold , And long'd to tempt him , like good Job of old : But Satan now is wiser than of yore , And tempts by making rich , not ...
... gains were sure , His giving rare , save farthings to the poor . The Devil was piqu'd such saintship to behold , And long'd to tempt him , like good Job of old : But Satan now is wiser than of yore , And tempts by making rich , not ...
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